Toilet survey #19: Millwall
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sarahxMillwall 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1
4 February 2006
Late again – but it's taken me this long to recover from the lunacy of our goal. The game had been pootling along in normal non-thrilling fashion, when just before half time our goalie, David Lucas, damaged his right knee – in just his second match back after recovering from an injury to his left knee. Poor guy. As usual, Sturrock didn't have a sub keeper on the bench, so centre half Lee Bullen went in goal. Then, about 15 minutes into the second half, it all went a bit silly.
A Millwall free-kick on the edge of the area was tipped over the bar by Bullen, and they put the resulting corner straight into the net. The players were too busy celebrating their 'goal' that they failed to notice that it had been disallowed for a push on Bullen, and we'd taken the free-kick quickly and legged it down the other end of the field. Despite being about 6 on 2, it still took a goalmouth scramble for left-back Frank Simek to score his first goal.
Funniest thing I've seen at footy in years.
The Millwall players weren't happy. And neither were the fans. The police kept us penned in for about half an hour on the nice new walkway that runs from the away end to South Bermondsey station, but given the alternative of being pelted by bricks by Millwall fans, I wasn't complaining.
Anyway, the toilets. The New Den is a far cry from the Old Den, and it's always a little bit weird to be inside the stadium I go past on the train every time I head into town. We took about 3,500 fans, and despite this there were no queues for the loos at all as there are two sets of ladies' loos, each with 10 cubicles.
Yes, 10. All in a rather fetching pale green to set off the breeze-block chic – looks like they used the same interior designer as Leicester City.
Surprisingly clean for a footy stadium pre-match, there was lots of loo roll and a nice dry floor.
Score: 8.5/10. Pretty damned good. Loses points for being a little dark (and being Millwall).
4 February 2006
Late again – but it's taken me this long to recover from the lunacy of our goal. The game had been pootling along in normal non-thrilling fashion, when just before half time our goalie, David Lucas, damaged his right knee – in just his second match back after recovering from an injury to his left knee. Poor guy. As usual, Sturrock didn't have a sub keeper on the bench, so centre half Lee Bullen went in goal. Then, about 15 minutes into the second half, it all went a bit silly.
A Millwall free-kick on the edge of the area was tipped over the bar by Bullen, and they put the resulting corner straight into the net. The players were too busy celebrating their 'goal' that they failed to notice that it had been disallowed for a push on Bullen, and we'd taken the free-kick quickly and legged it down the other end of the field. Despite being about 6 on 2, it still took a goalmouth scramble for left-back Frank Simek to score his first goal.
Funniest thing I've seen at footy in years.
The Millwall players weren't happy. And neither were the fans. The police kept us penned in for about half an hour on the nice new walkway that runs from the away end to South Bermondsey station, but given the alternative of being pelted by bricks by Millwall fans, I wasn't complaining.
Anyway, the toilets. The New Den is a far cry from the Old Den, and it's always a little bit weird to be inside the stadium I go past on the train every time I head into town. We took about 3,500 fans, and despite this there were no queues for the loos at all as there are two sets of ladies' loos, each with 10 cubicles.
Yes, 10. All in a rather fetching pale green to set off the breeze-block chic – looks like they used the same interior designer as Leicester City.
Surprisingly clean for a footy stadium pre-match, there was lots of loo roll and a nice dry floor.
Score: 8.5/10. Pretty damned good. Loses points for being a little dark (and being Millwall).
